https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/To-your-machines-citizens https://booksandideas.net/To-your-machines-citizens 2026-04-14T07:00:00Z text/html en Stanislas Deprez Politics democracy <span class="caps">GMO</span> expertise technics Cairn.info <p>Against the trend towards experts having exclusive control over technological development — justified on the grounds of the public's alleged incompetence — Adeline Barbin argues that citizens should be given greater power so as to ensure that techniques are consistent with democratic values.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Poverty-Experts-in-the-United https://booksandideas.net/Poverty-Experts-in-the-United 2012-01-26T07:38:00Z text/html en Jacques Rodriguez Politics United States of America poverty left expertise Institut français <p>Is expertise about poverty possible in a country where the phenomenon itself is deemed morally perverse? In a recent book, Romain Huret analyzes the intellectual network that crystallized around the “war on poverty” in the 1960s.</p>